IFSEC 2019 Show Report
The UK's largest trade show, IFSEC, is underway and IPVM has been examining what is new and happening at the show. Inside, we cover: Huawei...
The UK's largest trade show, IFSEC, is underway and IPVM has been examining what is new and happening at the show. Inside, we cover: Huawei...
Sighthound is now rapidly expanding its R&D team, building an enterprise AI service. This may come as a surprise given their origins 6 years...
Sam Pfeifle is best known as the outspoken former Editor of Security Systems News. After that, he was publications director at the International...
IPVM interviewed 19 facial recognition providers at ISC West to understand their claimed accuracy, success and positioning. 9 from China,...
IPVM interviewed Tony Porter, the UK’s surveillance camera commissioner after he recently called for regulations on facial recognition in the...
Many social media posts have variously celebrated or warned about the growing use of facial recognition for payments in China. An example of one...
By Charles Rollet - about 5 years ago
Should EU businesses be concerned if police see a business' surveillance cameras filming public areas? This is what happened with Austria’s first...
Two UK security firms have paid over $200,000 in fines for illegally making hundreds of thousands of calls to people registered on a government...
By Charles Rollet - over 5 years ago
The arrival of the GDPR on May 25, 2018, brought fears the law would spark a massive increase in privacy complaints about security camera use....
The UK Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has denied IPVM's complaint against IFSEC for misuse of facial recognition. Each Exhibitor...
By John Honovich - over 5 years ago
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The UK’s data protection agency has closed its investigation into Infinova-owned Swann Security UK, the ICO confirmed to IPVM, deciding to take “no...
The French government has notified a high-profile Paris coding academy that it risks a fine of up to 1.5 million euros (about $1.7m) if it...
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In what French media describes as "the most damaging crisis yet for" French President Macron, a political scandal has revealed major gaps in the...
The company that created RealPlayer is moving beyond media delivery and into the security space with a new facial recognition platform they have...
Hikvision has won a Chinese government tender which requires that facial recognition cameras be set up at the entrance of every single mosque...
By Charles Rollet - almost 6 years ago
Belgium has effectively banned the use of facial recognition and other biometrics-based video analytics in surveillance cameras for private,...
Decreasing exposure to fraudulent slip-and-fall insurance claims and lawsuits is one of the oldest selling points of video surveillance for retail....
Electronic access control is common in businesses plus organizations are increasingly considering biometrics for access control. With GDPR coming...
IPVM has filed a complaint against IFSEC’s parent company UBM based on our concern that the conference violates core GDPR principles on...
By IPVM Team - almost 6 years ago
IPVM attended the IFSEC show for the first time this year. The Chinese took over the show, centered on Hikvision, flanked by Dahua, Huawei and a...
Dahua has a terrible cybersecurity track record. But American organizations, like the Security Industry Association (SIA) and the PSA Security...
By John Honovich - almost 6 years ago
Dahua products are neither GDPR-compliant nor certified, contrary to their marketing. The reason is that no products can be, as the EU does not...
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